RAS question
Which Venn diagram best represents the relationship among: Rajasthan, India, Asia?
Correct answer: (A) Rajasthan inside India, India inside Asia.
Rajasthan is contained within India, and India is contained within Asia, so the correct Venn diagram is Rajasthan inside India inside Asia.
Explanation
A Venn diagram shows containment by placing the smaller category wholly inside the larger one. Rajasthan is a state within India. India is within Asia, and the Embassy of India, Minsk, Belarus factsheet identifies India's location as Southern Asia. So the relationship is not one of partial overlap or side-by-side membership; it is a strict nested hierarchy. The Rajasthan circle must sit entirely inside the India circle, and the India circle must sit entirely inside the Asia circle. That is exactly what option A represents.
Why the other options are wrong
- (B) Three overlapping circles would imply that Rajasthan, India and Asia only partly intersect, whereas the relationship is full containment from Rajasthan to India to Asia.
- (C) This diagram separates Rajasthan from India while placing both inside Asia, but Rajasthan is a state within India.
- (D) This reverses the hierarchy by putting India inside Rajasthan, even though Rajasthan is the smaller state-level unit within India.
Concept
This tests set inclusion in Venn diagrams: the key is to recognise when categories are nested rather than merely overlapping. It recurs in RAS reasoning because administrative and geographic hierarchies are common, quick-testing relationships.